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Smith's funeral in Bahamas to feature pink flowers, tight guest list
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in a custom-made gown next to her 20-year-old son following an ''over the top'' memorial service with a tightly controlled guest list, said a friend helping to organize the memorial.
The memorial service, with about 300 guests at an undisclosed church, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and singing from a well-known performer whose name organizers aren't ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif.
''It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off,'' Simpson told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. ''Of course it will be over the top because it's Anna Nicole.''
Simpson's partner, Pol Atteu, has designed more than a dozen gowns for Smith, including the one in which she was to be buried in a ''very elegant'' casket that will most likely be closed, he said. He declined to describe the dress.
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Simpson said each ''faction'' _ Stern, Arthur and Birkhead _ had to submit a guest list in advance and each would be limited to 100 people at the church service.
''It will be something very beautiful, very private, very over the top and very pink,'' he said.
The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said.
At Daniel's funeral, Smith and Stern erected a large green tent that blocked the media and other spectators from the service. Organizers of the former pinup's service are expected to do the same.
Simpson, a 38-year-old model talent scout who was friends with Smith for the past five years, said he and his partner plan to place photos of themselves with their 15-year-old daughter, who sang at Daniel's funeral, inside her casket, and other close friends also will likely add photos.
He recalled Smith as a warm and generous person who always remembered their daughter's birthday and other special events.
''She was just a good friend, a good mother, a great person,'' Simpson said. ''She had a heart of gold and would give you the shirt off her own back.''
Darn, why did it never occur to me to put pictures of *myself* into caskets of friends and family at their funerals? Oh, the opportunities lost.
HKS, the new guest commentator on ET each night, made a remark I found so odd yesterday - or was it in his Tuesday night segment?
He said it's so important for ANS to be buried in The Bahamas because "that's where she'll be for all eternity." Amazing.